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What is Underground Kingdom?

Underground Kingdom is an interactive gamebook for iPad and iPhone, adapted from the classic Choose Your Own Adventure®* book from Edward Packard. We will bring the experience to a new level, as it will include interactive features, amazing illustrations, animations and sounds.

When this project started, our idea was to use the original stories, so we got in touch with Edward Packard, the creator of the concept for the series and author of the first Choose Your Own Adventure book®* and over fifty other books in the series.

He offered to make some of his favorite books available to us and help us turn them into apps. We’re starting with Underground Kingdom.After we finish this app, our idea is to adapt more books from the original series. We will continue with Hyperspace, Invaders from Within, Survival at Sea and Dinosaur Island.

Features:

Interactivity: The book will be full of interactive illustrations and animations that will help the reader be part of the story. We created an interactive map that will show the choices that have been made, so the reader can navigate through the book.Illustrations: We are creating all new contemporary art for the book with more than 50 illustrations. Each of them will be animated and interactive.Languages: The application will be available in English and Spanish, and we plan to add more languages after the launch.Share your endings: You will have the option to share your endings through Facebook and Twitter

Who are we?

We are Visual Baker, an independent studio that is focused right now in this project. Our team members have a lot of experience making web applications, games, comics, videos, code and digital content.

To create this great adventure, Visual Baker teamed with Edward Packard, creator of the concept for Choose Your Own Adventure®* books and author of the first Choose Your Own Adventure®* book.

Independence!

We thought about presenting the idea to a publisher that would help us with funding and contacts, but we like the freedom of creating a product without corporate constraints that would hold back the project. Kickstarter seemed the perfect platform to raise funds and complete this great adventure.

How can I help?

By choosing your own pledge! In the right sidebar of this site, you will see different levels of rewards that will be distributed depending on the amount pledged.You can also help by sharing this campaign and spreading the word about this project on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ Blogs, Friends. We know there is a huge community of fans that read the series in their childhood and would love to read it again in this epic digital format.